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Battle of Grozny (March 1996)

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Coordinates:43°19′N45°41′E / 43.31°N 45.69°E /43.31; 45.69

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3rd Grozny

Second Battle of Grozny

Part of theFirst Chechen War

Date	March 6–10 1996
Location	Grozny,Chechnya 43°19′N45°41′E / 43.31°N 45.69°E /43.31; 45.69
Result	Chechens withdraw after successful raid

Belligerents

Russia

Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

Commanders and leaders

Strength

Unknown

Russian military:
150 to 1,500 fighters^[1]
Unofficial data:
130–150 fighters^[2]

Casualties and losses

Official figure:
110–200 soldiers killed^[1]^[3]
Hundreds wounded^[1]^[3]
Unknown missing^[1]

Russian claim:
190 fighters killed^[1]

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First Chechen War (1994–1996)

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TheSecond Battle of Grozny, also known asOperation Retribution, was a three-day surprise attack by Chechen fighters who stormed the capital city ofGrozny that was occupied byRussian Armed Forces.

Background

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Further information:First Chechen War

By June 1995 the Chechens had lost all the major cities and towns. On GeneralAslan Maskhadov's orders, the Chechen resistance shifted fromconventional warfare toguerrilla warfare, relying on the mountains.^[4]

Battle

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On March 6, 1996, Chechen fighters launched a surprise attack onGrozny, striking from three directions and encircling outlying Russian posts and local pro-Moscow Chechen police stations, catching Russian troops off guard, inflicting significant losses, overrunning much of it and capturing weapons and ammunition stores. The attack was supposedly intended to show that the Chechens could still operate against Russian forces.^[5]

Aftermath

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Three days later, after the Chechens left the city, fighting in theGrozny continued for several more days; the Russian units that entered Grozny periodically engaged in battle with one another, mistaking each other for the enemy.^[1]

PresidentDzokhar Dudayev allegedly called the attack a "little harassing operation". The attack was only a rehearsal for a much largeroperation that took place in August 1996.^[5]